- Feb 1 Martin Lunssens, Belgian composer, dies at 72
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Feb 1 Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow) and art theoretician, dies of pneumonia at 71
- Feb 4 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer, dies at 72
- Feb 4 Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress, dies at 79
- Feb 5 Robert E. Park, American sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79
- Feb 7 Lina Cavalieri, Italian dramatic soprano, and silent film actress, killed during WWII Allied bombing near here home in Florence, Italy at 69
- Feb 10 Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
- Feb 11 Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies
- Feb 16 Bob Zurke [Boguslaw Zukowski], American jazz pianist, arranger, (Bob Crosby Orchestra), and composer ("Old Tom-Cat On The Keys"), dies of complications of pneumonia aggravated by acute alcohol poisoning at 32
- Feb 16 Edmund von Borck, German composer, dies fighting in Italy in WWII at 37
- Feb 17 Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at 64
- Feb 19 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, German composer, dies at 76
- Feb 21 Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian auto racer (winner 1st Grand Prix motor racing event in Le Mans, France 1906), dies at 70
- Feb 22 Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi, dies at 74
Leo Baekeland (1863-1944)
Feb 23 Belgian-American chemist and inventor (bakelite plastics), dies at 80
- Feb 29 Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)
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